Dr Patrick Campbell
Senior Lecturer
Drama and Contemporary Performance
I am a Senior Lecturer in Drama and Contemporary Performance at Manchester Metropolitan University (United Kingdom). My research focuses on the contemporary valence of theatre laboratory practices across Europe and Latin America. I am co-author of the books: A Poetics of Third Theatre: Performer Training, Dramaturgy, Cultural Action, written alongside Dr. Jane Turner, and Owning our Voices: Vocal Discovery in the Wolfsohn-Hart Tradition, written with Margaret Pikes, both published by Routledge in 2021. I am a core member of Cross Pollination (Belgium), a nomadic laboratory for the dialogue in between artistic practices, a founder member of the Ship of Fools (UK/Denmark), a critical laboratory grounded within the Third Theatre tradition, and Associate Artist of COSmino Theatre (Germany/Poland). I currently tour and perform the work demonstrationThe Affective Dramaturgy of the Voice (2021), which foregrounds my experience as a Wolfsohn-Hart Voice practitioner and the application of this approach to extended vocal practice in my work as an actor and performer.
Teaching
My teaching is both pedagogic and andragogic and focuses on student-centred learning. Students are encouraged to approach theory from an embodied, experiential perspective, drawing on their own phenomenological experience of psychophysical training and performance work in order to explore and engage with the critical theory underpinning contemporary theatrical praxis.
I specialise in:
- Psychophysical actor training
- Intercultural performance forms
- Improvisation and ensemble work
- Devising and theatre making
- Contemporary theatre praxis
In terms of PhD supervision, I have guided a number of previous students to completion and welcome research projects with a focus on theatre laboratory, actor training, intercultural performance forms and Latin American performance practices.
Projects
Third Theatre: a Living Legacy
Research
Projects
I have been involved in the following international research projects over the past decade, reflecting my specialist skillset in theatre laboratory and socially-engaged arts practices:
- Named scholar (Researcher) on FAPESP (Sao Paulo Research Foundation) funded project 'Pedagogies, Processes and Archives of Presence' (PI: Professor Renato Ferracini, Unicamp, Brazil).
2024-present. - CAPES-Print (Brazilian Federal Agency for the Support and Evaluation of Graduate Education) Postdoctoral Fellowship, Federal University of Bahia, Brazil.
2023. - Named scholar (External Supervisor) on FWO (Research Foundation - Flanders) sponsored project 'Practicing the Odin Teatret Archives' (PI: Professor Christel Stalpaert, University of Ghent).
2021-2025. - Named scholar (Junior Researcher) on AHRC-sponsored EDI Engagement Fellowship 'SAFEDI: Social Artists for Equality, Diversity and Inclusion' (PI: Professor Amanda Ravetz, Manchester Metropolitan University).
2021. - CAPES-Print (Brazilian Federal Agency for the Support and Evaluation of Graduate Education) Visiting Fellowship, Federal University of Bahia, Brazil.
2020.
Performances
Campbell, P., 2025. 'The Affective Dramaturgy of Voice'.
Books
Turner, J., Campbell, P., 2021. 'A poetics of third theatre: performer training, dramaturgy, participation', Routledge, London.
Pikes, M., Campbell, P., 2021. 'Owning Our Voices Vocal Discovery in the Wolfsohn-Hart Tradition', Routledge.
Book Chapters
Turner, J., Campbell, P.G.W., 2019. ''The Dance of Opposition: Repetition, Legacy and Difference in Third Theatre Training'.'. In Evans, M., Thomaidis, K., Worth, L. (eds.) Time and Performer Training, Routledge.
Journal Articles
Campbell, P., 2024. 'From schema to rhuthmos: the idiorrhythmic encounters of the bridge of winds', Theatre, Dance and Performance Training, 15 (2), pp. 179-196.
Ledger, A.J., Kuhlmann, A., Christoffersen, E.E., Turner, J., Campbell, P., Chemi, T., 2022. 'From the centre to the periphery', Theatre, Dance and Performance Training, 13 (1), pp. 156-158.
Campbell, P., Turner, J., 2022. 'The clinch and the crack: rupture and resolution in Third Theatre's laboratory practices', Arts, 11 (6), pp. 118-118.
Selva, A.L., Campbell, P., Nie, M., Maciel, A., 2021. 'Cross Pollination's Nomadic Laboratory: a praxis in-between practices', Revista Brasileira de Estudos da Presença, 11 (4).
Nie, M., La Selva, A., Maciel, A., Campbell, P., 2021. 'Echolocation and Reverberation: Praxical Dispositifs in Laboratory Theatre', Global Performance Studies, 4 (2).
Turner, J., Campbell, P., 2020. 'A POETICS OF THIRD THEATRE: A SYNOPSIS', TEATRO E STORIA, 41, pp. 159-168.
Campbell, P., 2020. 'Dancing Bahia: Essays on Afro-Brazilian Dance, Education, Memory, and Race', NEW THEATRE QUARTERLY, 36 (3), pp. 277-277.
La Selva, A., Nie, M., Maciel, A., Campbell, P., 2020. 'Parliament of Practices: No-topian tactics for praxical dialogue', Performance Research, 25 (8), pp. 15-17.
Campbell, P., 2020. 'The Five Continents of Theatre: Facts and Legends about the Material Culture of the Actor', Contemporary Theatre Review, 30 (2), pp. 282-283.
Campbell, P., 2019. 'Disciplining the Scream', Performance Research, 24 (1), pp. 38-44.
Campbell, P., Turner, J., 2019. 'Odin Teatret's The Tree: performing in the interstices', Revista Brasileira de Estudos da Presença, 9 (3), pp. e88116-e88116.
Turner, J., Campbell, P.G.W., 2018. 'Radical Care: Performative Generosity and Generativity in Third Theatre', Performance Research, 23 (6), pp. 58-64.
Campbell, P.G.W., Linden, J., 2016. 'Expanded Practice and Curation as Creative Process: An Introductory Assemblage', REPERTÓRIO: Teatro & Dança, 19 (27), pp. 11-20.
Campbell, P.G.W., 2015. 'Portraits in/between Black and White: Traumatic Performativity and Postmemory in a Jamaican Family Album', REPERTÓRIO: Teatro & Dança, 2015.1.
Conference Papers
Campbell, P., 2012. 'Traces of the (M)other: Deconstructing hegemonic historical narrative in teat(r)o Oficina Uzyna Uzona's Os sertões', in Journal of Latin American Cultural Studies, 21 (2), pp. 287-311.